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People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

— Sergei Bubka

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

— Daniel Everett

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

— Russell Hoban

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

— G. Willow Wilson

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

— Marcus Samuelsson

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

— Sarah Shahi

✗Opposing Perspectives

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

— Martin Scorsese

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

— Kate Grenville

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

— Bruno Tonioli